April 17, 2015

"Then we had a guy accidentally shooting his mother-in-law through the wall of her trailer when his target was actually an armadillo ('That bullet couldn’t have taken a more American journey if it had punctured a Kraft single, ricocheted off a Nascar trophy and got lodged in a painting of Elvis and Jesus holding hands at a rodeo,' observed Williams). But neither of these news stories could even come close to the report that succeeded in taking home the 2015 'Mercun Award crown..."

From a WSJ report on "The Daily Show"'s awards based on the "popular social-media meme #Murica." The WSJ's link on the hashtag goes not to Twitter but to the Urban Dictionary, which defines the term in an openly bigoted manner: "The way un-educated Americans (generally rednecks, hicks, republicans, or very patriotic people) say America" and "The term 'murica' is the way how many people with extremely thick, American accents, pronounce 'America'. The term is used to denote extreme, extreme nationalism and patriotism, but not necessarily facism. It is generally seen as a derogatory yet humorous way to describe most Americans: fat, lazy, gunwielding, war loving, horse riding, saloon fighting, beer drinking, sex wanting or etc."

You know, I don't know that it's really smart to make fun of the people with all the guns (and military training of effective use of them) because at some point people get tired of it and hit back at the bullies.

It is interesting to me how tribal this has all become. It is an attempt for the Blue Team to put down the Red Team, little different from what we did at football games in high school.

I think that we are seeing this more and more, and possibly blame Obama and the Dems for it. Team Red joins the military, fights for the country, says the Pledge of Allegiance, etc., and more and more owns guns. The leaders of Team Blue try to get their minions to look down on these attributes of Red Team. And Red Team ignores their social betters more and more, happy to go armed when they don't need to be, to celebrate that they can be so armed, instead of living in much of Blue America, where you can't be armed, even when you should be.

"The term 'murica' is the way how many people with extremely thick, American accents, pronounce 'America'."

False and stupid. Let us try again:

"The term 'murica' is the way cosmopolitan leftist assholes pronounce 'America' when they want to insult the patriotism of an entirely fictional people that they imagine living in some other part of the United States."

Here in darkest Mississippi, no one pronounces "America" that way except as a self-effacing joke playing on the sensibilities of the aforementioned cosmopolitan leftist assholes.

T Rellis said... [hush]​[hide comment]You know, I don't know that it's really smart to make fun of the people with all the guns (and military training of effective use of them) because at some point people get tired of it and hit back at the bullies.

4/17/15, 11:37 AM

A big part of that is the way they heroically attach Jews, Christians, the military, Republicans, etc. They attach those that they KNOW won't hit back. You don't see them going after Islam (that could cost you your head). It is easy to offend (deserved or not) when there is no cost to pay. It is a different matter entirely to actually get in the face of someone that has a history of hitting back.

For the record, I consider my Miss'ssippi hill country drawl to be one type of "extremely thick American accent". The distinctiveness has its uses. For instance, on any con-call I'm typically the only one who doesn't have to start every sentence with "This is..."

A big part of that is the way they heroically attach Jews, Christians, the military, Republicans, etc. They attach those that they KNOW won't hit back. You don't see them going after Islam (that could cost you your head). It is easy to offend (deserved or not) when there is no cost to pay. It is a different matter entirely to actually get in the face of someone that has a history of hitting back.

It might be interesting to start a group “Muslims for ‘Murica” and see how willing the SJW crowd is to insult them.

The aristocrats of snobber are even angrier that any US citizens says he is an American.

Their rather bitter view is that the New World is composed of continents of North America, Central America and South America. And that a string of coastal Colonials that broke away and has bullied the others is not worthy to usurp the name Amuricans.

But after a doofus redneck Tennessee Volunteers Colonel defeated the British Monarchy at the Battle of New Orleans 200 years ago , that has been restrained view except in Ontario.

Now the World Empires think Obama is surrendering us back, and the first thing they want to see is that Redneck Tennessee Colonel's picture taken off our money.

“I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about “Your country’s never been invaded.” And so I said, “Let me tell you who those bad guys are. They’re us. WE BE BAD. We’re the baddest-assed sons of bitches that ever jogged in Reeboks. We’re three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mother’s side. You take your Germany, France, and Spain, roll them all together and it wouldn’t give us room to park our cars. We’re the big boys, Jack, the original, giant, economy-sized, new and improved butt kickers of all time. When we snort coke in Houston, people lose their hats in Cap d’Antibes. And we’ve got an American Express card credit limit higher than your piss-ant metric numbers go. You say our country’s never been invaded? You’re right, little buddy. Because I’d like to see the needle-dicked foreigners who’d have the guts to try. We drink napalm to get our hearts started in the morning. A rape and a mugging is our way of saying 'Cheerio.' Hell can’t hold our sock-hops. We walk taller, talk louder, spit further, fuck longer and buy more things than you know the names of. I’d rather be a junkie in a New York City jail than king, queen, and jack of all Europeans. We eat little countries like this for breakfast and shit them out before lunch.” ― P.J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About This"

Interesting how many of these tropes found their way into that ESPN chick's rant. When it comes to the Left, particularly the Media Left, straight white Americans (and, I suspect down deep most black Americans) need to realize it's the opposite of Sally Field's pathos: "you hate me, you really hate me."

"The term 'murica' is the way cosmopolitan leftist assholes pronounce 'America' when they want to insult the patriotism of an entirely fictional people that they imagine living in some other part of the United States."

This. The only people I've ever heard pronounce it that way were those who were using it to insult someone or something.

the wolf said... Let's turn that around and create awards for crime victims who failed to defend themselves because they fear guns. Then we'll point and laugh. Makes as much sense.

4/17/15, 12:55 PM

Actually makes more sense. For example (loosely), I really, really stopped watch McGyver when in one episode he destroyed a perfectly good and functional rifle in order to use it as a hydrant wrench to hose down the bad guys instead of shooting back at them. I mean it was a working rifle for cripes sake! Pick it up and shoot back! But no, he and the writers were so anti-gun, they would rather his character turn a perfectly good tool for throwing lead into a passable wrench.

I also like the idea of posting signs on your lawn that say "This home is protected by a gun owner but the house to my right is NOT. It is a gun free zone." for when your neighbors get all holier than thou on you.

In fairness, a guy who sues a restaurant because he burned himself on an audibly sizzling plate deserves a bit of ridicule.

Related and yet off topic story: A server wearing a mitt once motioned for my husband to take a plate from him. Seeing the mitt, my husband asked if the plate was hot. The server wordlessly implored him to take the plate again, repeatedly thrusting it out slightly more. "Okay." My husband slowly reached for the plate, looking the man in the eye to make sure he intended for him to take it.

He took it. "Ow!" And quickly dropped it on the table. It burned his hand. The tiny server giggled and disappeared.

It was so baldly malicious! I couldn't help it; I laughed. My husband, though he was furious, laughed too.

It is funny in an obscene sort of way to know that we have lost and that these smirks at the flyover people are shared by the flyover people themselves who are so desperate to be cool, to not be flyover. Which is deserving of a double-inside-smirk at the flyovers for thinking that was all it took.

The closest right-wing analogue to all if this is a guy who does not get nearly enough credit. And he never will, of course, because his whole raison d'être is antithetical to MSM political correctness.

I am of course speaking of Jesse Watters. On the Fox News Channel, with his "Watters' World" segments as part of The O'Reilly Factor.

Todd Wrote:"I really, really stopped watch McGyver when in one episode he destroyed a perfectly good and functional rifle in order to use it as a hydrant wrench to hose down the bad guys instead of shooting back at them"I used to watch a cop show called The Glades. I stopped watching after a gun control episode, called "Iron Pipeline" (I think). Evil gun shop owner had sold a gun to a strawman buyer, gun was used in a shooting, earning the anger of the detective. Show ends with detective physically assaulting the gun shop owner, who had done nothing illegal. This was presented as wholly justified violence.

Am a Northeasterner (from New England) who does business in the Midwest / Southwest.

Oddly enough, the only times I've heard the term 'murkin have been from folks in the SW / Midwest, and am not sure why. An assumption that I look down on them? Shame on their part of their own internalized sense of inferiority? Or is it more like Black folks calling themselves n#ggers or gays calling themselves queers / dykes / fags?

(Wouldn't be doing business in their neck of the woods or considering a move if I hated the region / culture.)

I have a liberal friend (yes, really, some of them are quite pleasant under the right circumstances) who did white water rafting. He and a buddy would park a car on the river bank where they planned to haul out, and then drove the other car 10 miles or whatever to where they would put the raft into the water. This meant that there were two cars left unattended in the wilderness for several hours. After a couple of instances of break-ins and thefts, my friend put a "This Car Protected By Smith & Wesson" and "Proud Member of the NRA" bumper stickers on his car, and his car was left alone from then on.

Personally, I never thought the implied threat was what did it. I think the folks who live in the woods figured someone with those bumper stickers was an OK guy, and they'd leave his car alone.

The bumper stickers were a source of wonder and amazement when he parked his car in the parking garage of the Big Law firm we worked for.

I have several books of Ragtime sheet music from 100 years ago with covers that featured "darkies,""coons" and "coloreds" doing cakewalks and other dances, happy as all get out. The music told a much different story written by mostly black men. So, Why is this any different? Oh, these are white people. White trash but white people, so it's all right. Gee, I sure hope this makes Jon Stewart and his audience feel better about themselves. In my opinion, the only people who enjoy this stuff are schmucks who know they're schmucks.

All I have to say about HBO is that I had it free for a month back in 1996, and I let it lapse. It wasn't worth what I was paying for it.

Fascism is national socialism where the means of production remain in the hands of, and under token control of political cronies of the rulers. The cronies get rich by doing what they are told with their companies by the country's rulers. Obama and the Dems back economic policies little different from the WWII fascists, complete with rampant crony capitalism, and primarily differing on the nationalism part.

Stewart is also a Jew. Them Jews are pretty damn funny. Especially Jews who pretend they are Gentiles by changing their name. Let's have a segment called Jewica, where we make fun of the Jews in America. Especially those weird Orthodox Jews. What's up with their hair?

People from South Carolina can look down on Californians now.I have been tracking state median income at PPP (purchasing power parity). South Carolina overtook California, by my measure, at least 6 years ago.

Titus: "food to table is our mantra-and the food needs to be a few hours away from a small local farm that is free range"

LOL

When Titus is praising the science chops of Lena Dunham and pretending he is something more than just an HR "cost center", he is neglecting the reality of Boston's geo location and the fact that it sometimes gets a tad cold there during that season commonly known as "winter" making locally grown produce throughout the year "problematic".

Hilarious!! You would starve in that frozen shithole if you ate only locally grown. You can take the hick out of Wisconsin but you can't take the Wisconsin out of the hick. V.P.hick that is. Ha. Living large on the VP pay.

sinz52 said, "Conservatives reacted to Stewart exactly the way he knew they would: They got outraged.

You can never win by playing straight man to a comedian."

As far I know, George Will has never been on the Jon Stewart show. But, I imagine if he were, he would take Stewart down with such patient loving care that Stewart and his audience would never really know how badly he'd been had. Will took down Maher once on This Week, although the velvet glove was not in evidence. It was embarrassing for Maher.

I really think a good, smart straight man who really knows stuff can stick it to a comedian who only thinks he does.

Bob wrote:"I really think a good, smart straight man who really knows stuff can stick it to a comedian who only thinks he does."John Yoo did it to Stewart by simply not treating him as though Stewart had anything useful or intelligent to say. Yoo treated Stewart, in good humor, as though Stewart was a late night variety show host. Shatner did something like that to Limbaugh when he interviewed him by being uninterested in anything Limbaugh had to say -- accept Limbaugh's deafness. Shatner was really interested in Limbaugh's deafness, and Limbaugh seemed to appreciate being asked about something other than politics or talk radio.